[meta-xilinx] Differences between Yocto meta-xilinx and Xilinx meta-xilinx

[Manjukumar Harthikote Matha]

Hi Peter,

On 10/31/2016 08:23 AM, SMITH Peter T wrote:
> Hi all, hopefully somebody can explain to me the difference between the
> Xilinx and Yocto hosted meta-xilinx layers. As of today there are
> significant differences between the two repositories. To illustrate,
> Xilinx appear to have released a lot of stuff tagged with 2016.3 over
> the weekend which does not yet exist in the Yocto hosted repo. Is it
> just a time delay thing?
v2016.3 and other release branches on github are aligned with Xilinx 
tools release. Each release branch is based on previous stable Yocto 
release (2016.3 is based on krogoth). We also dont support few things 
like yocto kernel, u-boot spl etc since these branches are used for 
Xilinx tools release.

These branches will not make it to yoctoproject.org, instead we upstream 
the work done in each release branch to the master of meta-xilinx.

Which repo should I base my development work
> on? I am developing for US+ MPSoC.
>
If you are using Xilinx tools (toolchain, xsct, etc), then it is 
recommended that you stick with Xilinx release branches. If you plan to 
use complete opensource YP (meaning Yocto toolchain, kernel etc), then 
use master or any stable previous Yocto branch. Note that MPSoC may not 
work with Yocto kernel

Hope this helps

Thanks
Manju